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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

#932: Kelly McKennon

A.k.a. Laozu

Just as last post’s Ryan McGinty, Kelly McKennon is a
promoter of orgone energy;
he is just as divorced from anything resembling reality, and – hence – has an
equally substantial whale.to presence.
And just like McGinty, McKennon – or Laozu, as he prefers to be called – gives
you advice on how to escape from threats that don’t exist and fill your
surroundings with mythical positive energy through crystals,
imagination and junk from Radioshack. “All the trees and plants now on the lot
where I live […] have positive ambient qi,”
claims Laozu (though it can only be measured by intuition and devices that
tells him what he wants to know by no discernible systematicity apart from the
fact that he knows what answer he wants to get), and he has developed
comprehensive resources that you can use, too (“qi”, by the way, is in Laozu’s
opinion just the Chinese word for orgone). Among his most powerful devices is
the Laozu Torsion Cloud Buster,
which can be placed on a “black energy line” to “convert it to positive”. Looking
at his testimonials, at least this guy seems to have been satisfied with the product: “This line passed through the
corner of the cellar where two nasty demonic type spirits were in residence […]
When the CB was put on the line they changed from being like hissing alley cats
into grim silence, and the last time Kelly looked they were crying.”

Laozu can also offer advice on charging water and crystals,
Pyramid Crystal Chargers, Orgonite Innovation and how to “gift the heavens” – as well as information about “non-material beings”, entities that can
nevertheless be characterized by their qi (or your imagination). “Examples of
non-material beings are angels, those which have responsibility for seeing to
the welfare of certain geographic locations (spiritus loci) or (tu di shen),
those which have responsibility for looking after trees (devas), those whose
responsibilities lie in the air (sylphs), those whose responsibilities lie in
the water (undines), those who are associate with fire (salamanders) and the
elementals which often have responsibility for specific plant (or other)
organisms. The qi of the nymphs, sylphs, and devas which I have observed has
always been quite positive.” Yes. Sylphs sometimes disguise themselves as
clouds, apparently, which makes one wonder whether Laozu has a clear grasp of
the distinction between material and non-material.

At least he is candid enough to admit that “[m]y findings
and opinions are not all mainstream, but I have based them solely on personal observation,” which, of course, close-minded people with critical thinking
skills would say isexactlythecrux of the problem,
especially if you, like Laozu, have already demonstrated a proclivity for
affect bias and general lunacy.

Diagnosis: The distinction between reality and imagination
is apparently a hard one, and McKennon fails more profoundly than most.
Otherwise harmless.